Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to owls.
1 more example
He thought of the pellets he found by day, the tight packages of bone, fur and excrement that, like crushed auto carcases in a wrecker's yard, were all that remained of voles or mice swallowed whole by their strigine predators. Did those small creatures scuffling over leaves and roots hear the owls calling, and tremble in fear?
2014, James Robertson, 365: Stories
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latinstrig-“screech-owl”
- Englishstrigine
From Latin strig- (“screech-owl”), + English -ine.
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Esperanto striga
- strigarelating to owls
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strigine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strigine
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